Marcel Klapp
Marcel Klapp is research associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He is currently conducting research in the project Salafiyya leben. Religiöse Ideale und Muslimische Praxis in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft, which will run from 2020 to 2023 in cooperation of the Institute of Ethnology (Prof. Martin Zilllinger) and the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World (Prof. Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf). Furthermore, under the supervision of Prof. Martin Zillinger, he is doing his PhD on practices of Muslim self-positioning, critique and compromise in Islamic educational spaces on the local level of major German city. Marcel holds an MA from the University of Münster, where he also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology Münster from 2016 to 2020. There he coordinated the Research Center for Online Discourses, Islam and Narratives (Re:COIN) and was responsible for several projects at the intersection of religious education and public discourses on Islam. As an independent filmmaker, he produced the award-winning documentary Heavenly Journeys - Insights into Alevi Ritual Dance. His research interests include digital religion, practices of authority-making and islamic education. He has published in several edited volumes and journals, including Journal of Muslims in Europe and Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Contact: marcel.klapp[at]uni-koeln.de
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